Each EJB that gets deployed gets a corresponding mbean. You can add mbean dependencies to the META-INF/jboss.xml file so that the EJBs are deployed in the correct order. Here is an example for EJB3 (the mbean name is different for EJB2.x, but should be easily locatable in jmx console): <enterprise-beans> | <session> | <ejb-name>SomeEjb</ejb-name> | <depends>jboss.j2ee:ear=xxx.ear,jar=yyy.jar,name=EjbName,serevice=EJB3</depends> | </session> | </enterprise-beans> | You can have a similar entry in the jboss-web.xml file if a WAR depends on any EJBs. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4181606#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...